大雅山村馬市図臨写 (Taiga “Sanson umaichi zu” rinsha)|After Ike Taiga’s “Horse Market in a Mountain Village”
The Met
Artist: Watanabe Kazan 渡辺崋山(Japanese, 1793–1841)
Date: early 19th century
Department: Asian Art
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Image: 57 5/8 × 23 1/16 in. (146.4 × 58.5 cm) Overall with mounting: 85 3/8 × 29 1/4 in. (216.9 × 74.3 cm) Overall with knobs: 85 3/8 × 31 11/16 in. (216.9 × 80.5 cm)
Credit Line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2020
Visual Descriptions
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Brief Description
Vertical ink painting of a vast mountainous landscape with trees, houses, and calligraphic text
Detailed Description
This vertical ink painting on light paper depicts a detailed mountainous landscape. At the top, a large, craggy mountain range dominates the left side, rendered with dark ink washes and textured strokes, suggesting rocky formations and sparse vegetation. Several small, simple buildings with tiled roofs are nestled into the mountainside on the upper left. To the right of these prominent peaks, the landscape recedes into a valley with softer, more distant mountains and hills, depicted with lighter ink. In the upper right quadrant, multiple columns of black calligraphic text, written in a script that is not legible at this resolution, cover a significant portion of the sky and distant landscape. Below the main mountain range, a dense forest fills the middle ground, featuring various types of trees. Some trees have thick, rounded canopies, while others show slender trunks and delicate branches. More buildings are visible on the left, integrated into the forested slopes. The lower half of the painting is filled with a dense, textured pattern of foliage, suggesting a thick undergrowth or a vast expanse of trees extending into the foreground. The overall palette is monochromatic, primarily black ink on a light, possibly aged, paper.
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